The Bald Truth: O.J. Simpson Bond Revoked; Witness Threatened? It’s Back To Jail?
O.J. Enters Las Vegas Jail Jan. 11 for alleged bond violation
By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
Don’t you hate when this happens, big celebrity like O.J. Simpson, gets a third chance on the back nine of life, thinks no one’s looking, that he can get away with it, and kicks the ball out of the rough and onto the fairway…like golf pals tell me he used to do…
Only this time, he apparently gets caught breaking the rules, and, Friday, it’s off to jail again in Las Vegas.
OJ may have a new Dream Team, but you weren’t dreaming if you saw him on TV Friday night, head down, sheepish-looking, a red towel over handcuffs as police hustled him off to the Clark County Detention Center.
Bloody Glove: “If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit.”
Fresh off a plane from Miami, the Juice had no comment after a Las Vegas judge ordered him arrested immediately for allegedly breaking conditions of his $125,000 bond, quickly revoked by the bondsman.
Simpson was free on bond until an April trial date on kidnapping and armed robbery charges that could put him behind bars for life.
According to court documents filed Friday and obtained by The Bald Truth, Simpson phoned his bail bondsman — “Hey, Miguel, it’s me”–and asked him to deliver a message to a co-defendant, Clarence Stewart, that he was tired of “this shit. Fed up with mother— changing what they told me. Alright?”
When Miguel didn’t answer the phone, Simpson left the message on his voice mail. It wound up in the hands of Clark County District Attorney Dave Roger, who apparently argued it was proof Simpson had tried to contact another party in the case.
What was he thinking? What was he smoking? Was he just stressed fighting foreclosure? Freaked about the idea of possible prison time in the shadows of the city where he loved to partay?
At an earlier hearing, a justice of the peace warned Simpson his freedom depended on his promise not to contact any other parties in the case, “even by carrier pigeon.”
“Do you understand everything?” he asked Simpson.
“Yes, sir, I do.”
In an interview with the Associated Press, OJ’s lawyer, Yale Galanter insisted he’d done nothing wrong, and had not intended to contact anyone in the case.
A judge will hear it all Wednesday in Las Vegas, and determine whether Simpson stays locked up until his trial date, now set for April, or gets another get out of jail free card. Court docs below…bond revocation motion, order to revoke bond, original complaint.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Simpson,should by now know what people are.He has very few friends,that will not try and make a name for themselfs at this point.This man is like a time bomb.You can see by his action,s he has very little control,and goes off the handle easy.it must be hard for him to watch his every action. But I ALSO BELIEVE HE WAS SET UP,BY RICCIO.Riccio knew full well OJ lack of control.I do not like set up,s of any kind.There is a problem,BIG PROBLEM,even when most people believe he is a murderer,he had a jury trial,and let go,that is are JUSTICE SYSTEM,OJ SHOULD NOT HAVE TO ANSWER FOR THAT CRIME,BY BEING SET UP.WITH THIS ONE.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:21 am
It’s time OJ paid the piper. I hope he goes to jail for
forfeiting his bond agreement.
skooly
January 12th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Oh man Art…if they put O.J. away, who’s gonna look for the real killers?
January 12th, 2008 at 10:16 am
They need to throw away the key now that they’ve finally locked him up.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:27 am
OJ>>> may you reap what you sow, and may you become somebodies beaten up girlfriend in Jail, with no means of escape. Jail justice.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:31 am
THROW AWAY THE KEY AND PUT HIM IN SOLITARY WHERE HIS BIG MOUTH CANNOT BE HEARD. HE IS FINALLY WHERE HE BELONGS. ROT IN HELL!
January 12th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Hi Art
Hopefully this time they will keep him in jail, for some reason he thinks he is above the law and it is time somebody puts him in his place. He belongs behind bars for the rest of his life!!!
January 12th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
oooh , bad memories of that trial, that i watched every day, and wanted to scream. To have O.J. walk out of that court room, free, was a very sad day. it is still hard to think about. I wanted to be on that jury sooo bad. but i was not one of his peers,[BUT neither was the other jurist]. that was a big mistake by the there D.A. to let the trial be moved. O.J’S peers were the people he lived around. and visited with. He had a white wife, lived in a white neighborhood, lived the life of a white man. HE still does, He does not date a black woman, usually its blonds. wen they moved the trial, they moved it to a neighbor hood, that thought of him as a GOD. Jonny Crochron did his job, and i am still ashamed of what he got away with. better shut my mouth
January 12th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
OJ never acts alone.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
maybe on a chain gang where he used to live in Ca. cleaning up garbage, i am mean when it comes to him.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
The Court tells OJ; no direct contact, no indirect contact whatsoever…then the Court says; not to use any means to contact these individuals; email, phone, mail,(loved)the “passenger pigeon” remark!
Most importantly the Court also said no contact via third party.
I believe OJ will again get out of this one, maybe pay a fine for the Court’s time, another repremand not to contact anyone connected with the case.
Fact is; it is more cost-worthy to keep OJ in jail then out.
My opinion; the prosecution in CA sure ’screwed-up’ years ago!
January 12th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I’m tired of reruns.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Too bad OJ just doesn’t die!
January 13th, 2008 at 10:16 am
When I heard of his bond being revoked the first thought was PI John N, who had been willing to go bond for OJ. Now wondering if he is glad he saved his money?
Sorry John.
Heard last night the reason his bond was revoked had to do mostly with the fact that he (OJ) had not paid his % part of the bond, so his bondman called in the bond. Should that be factual, he will more than likely be set free until his next court date.
Most of the world has an opinion on what happened many years back, the one thing we need to keep in mind is that he faced his peers and was set free. The law spoke, we need to swallow that blow and move forward and not confuse the lastest with the murder trial. In other words let the jury judge him on the merits of what he did this time & this time only.
Not a fan of OJ or football.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Margie and Missy M: LOL, I just loved your remarks.
January 13th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Beverly and Clipper
I feel the same way.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
The late, great Johnny Cochran was billant. As was Barry Scheck - the DNA expert - Innocent Project and all that - he certainly convinced me there was reasonable doubt with the DNA. We will see on Wednesday if the evidence is there to keep him in jail. Seems to have friends in Florida.
January 15th, 2008 at 12:16 am
#13 Clipper…I totaly agree…He faced his peers…and found NOT GUILTY…This is going to be like DOUBLE JEPORDY
with only different wording…IMHO
January 15th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Yeah you do wonder if he acted alone all those years ago. Gossip on the net, I’ve read, points fingers to someone else watching that night. But can you really believe everything you read on the ‘net’ anyway huh?
I don’t understand tho what I perceive to be a sense of entitlement from him. Surely he knew what the judge meant when the orders were given. No contact, that’s pretty easy to understand.
Does he miss the roaring crowds and the fan’s praise? Don’t see that happening anytime soon.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:02 am
This is the worst thing anyone could say, “Too bad OJ just doesn’t die!”
Two wrongs never make a right!
Even Jeffery, I think that was his name, was ‘another one us.’
Sometimes compassion is impossible to understand.
Sometimes people do bad things.
Some are crazy, some are abused, some are simple and some are complex.
The best thing I think, it seems to me, is to control the ones that can’t control themselves.
And at least try the best we can to keep them from hurting themselves, or others.
Instead, it seems ‘we’ lock up a bunch of people that really can be helped, so there’s no room left for the ones that really need that ‘desolate space.’
January 15th, 2008 at 3:14 am
It’s pretty scary to relate…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrxr7n2XpY&feature=related
I’ve been wrong, a lot, mercy me.
Words can be powerful…or weak.
No matter the rhyme or the beat.
Hey, I’m an old white lady…and I just like music too, much I guess.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:27 am
I’am sorry guys but OJ was found not-guilty back then, there no way in hell he could have did a crime like that. There would have been evidence everywhere. He’s a black men so he’s guilty. Oj is being set-up.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:30 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B75TieFknO4
When I think about all the stupid money they spent on caging me, once upon a time, at my father’s request, and to think I was only 15, and yet I was treated like an adult, and still had a few months to go.
Oh, the mistakes…the ‘hard love’ they tried to impose on me…it was just wrong.
Of course, I was wrong too, but those darn’d adults…
January 15th, 2008 at 3:35 am
‘THEY’ put me in jail for Dexatrim…
You can buy them over the counter.
I just wanted to be slim and pretty.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Clipper you are so right .I have my own views on this matter but a jury did aguit him.not find him not guilty. and at least this time no one is blaming the Jury for doing what they were supposed to do find him guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt.There had to be doubt or he would not have gone free.Noy a person in this matter has clean hands so to speak they all have a good reason to say what they are saying to get a lighter sentence.Thsi has worked very well in our justice system for the most part.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
THANKS ART FOR YOUR GREAT ARTICLES. I LOVE READING YOUR STORIES. I WISH YOU WOULD WRITE ONE ON THE MISSING MARINE CPL MARIA LAUTERBACH’S DEATH. I’M GLAD YOU WRITE ABOUT THE FACTS AND THE BALD TRUTH.
January 16th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
No matter what you may think of OJ, fact is he was found innocent of the murders and that he can not be tried for again.
I believe this last hotel happenings was like a comedy of errors, and OJ was set-up. AS much as i think the whole got thing got out of control, and Mr.RICIHHO got exaclty what he wanted a tape that made him a lot of monies.
Oj seems to have one hot temper that goes off with a flip of a switch and Tom R knew exactly how to work that switch on OJ.
I do not think OJ will get convicted on most of these counts that are againest him, and if i had so called friends like he does i would not want for any enimies. They turned on him like a pancake. GREAT FRIENDS…
Who else would get bail, and never pay the what he should of paid in cash, the first time he got out,not even the $40.00 filing fee and the bondsman felt he would get it when the case was over, what IS THIS BONDSMAN THINKING???
OJ, must still have that appeal and charm.
January 17th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I was actually in that courtroom once for OJ’s trial and that was the day that Marcia Clark rested her case. There was a drawing each morning at 7:00 to see whose name had been chosen for the 7 spots they had for the general public and mine was chosen. We were packed in the back of the courtroom like sardines. I was able to see the Jury and all the relatives and friends of everyone that was present on that day. It was quite evident that The jury that was picked was not a jury of his peers. Knowing this I wasn’t too surprised to see OJ found not guilty. It’s too bad the case wasn’t tried in Brentwood where the jury would have been his peers and he would have, no doubt, been found guilty.
January 20th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Fransho: Bull!
January 20th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Just because a person has been found “not guilty” doesn’t mean he is innocent. It’s too bad I wasn’t on that jury.